This Fire Truck Cake took FOREVER!!! For the truck… I made my own marshmallow fondant frosting and used the fondant for the white cab, the black windows, and all the black and gray accents you see – even the hose. The red is a butter cream frosting, I used an entire jar of Wilton’s no-taste … Read more
I made this Fire Engine Birthday Cake for my grandson on his 5th birthday. He wanted a fire engine; His party was at a Fire Station in Burtonsville, Md. The fire engines at Burtonsville fire department are white so that’s why I made the cake white. I used box cake mix. I made two cakes … Read more
I made this Firetruck 1st Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. It was lots of fun to make. I started with two 10″ cakes, two 8″ cakes and one 6″ cake. I frosted all of them white. Next, I frosted the 10″ cakes using the red, black and orange stripes. I also added black … Read more
I looked at a picture of a tank and cut out the cake bottom from a 9×13 pan. The Turret is an oval cake pan trimmed to a proper size. The soldier is a 1.00 army man from Walmart. The tracks are painted bubble tape, and a leaf tip to make bumps along it. The … Read more
My son wanted a tank cake and I was wondering how in the world I was going to accomplish that. Then I stumbled on your website and couldnt wait to get started. I knew it was going to turn out awesome! I simply made a 9×13 cake for the bottom and then made two 9” … Read more
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This dump truck construction cake was for my sons first birthday last week. He loves his toy dump truck so we used that theme. The cake turned out much bigger than I thought, it easily would have fed over 30 people. I started with 11×13 and 9×11 sheet cakes. I used a small box covered … Read more
I first want to explain that Michael Paul wanted a Scoop cake but his mother didnt want the face on it just the truck; therefore I made Scoop without a face. To make dump cake I used two regular sized loaf pans and four mini loaf pans. The body of the truck is the two … Read more
For my sons second birthday I did a fire truck cake. I baked it with a regular loaf pan for the main part of the truck. A mini loaf pan for the top. The tires were the bottom of cupcakes, painted with black frosting. Candy was used for the different parts of the fire truck. … Read more
I found this cake on the Family Fun website. It was really an easy cake to assemble. I had to buy the red frosting because it was incredibly difficult to avoid a pink fire engine just using food coloring!
My Dad was a pilot so it was obvious he should have an Aeroplane Birthday Cake for his 70th birthday! I also had the idea of having all his family as passengers so had pictures taken of us all looking in the correct position and had them printed on edible rice paper. I drew out … Read more
Directions are on Shindigz. It’s an easy cake idea to create. It’s just a rectangular cake cut up and placed on a board. I did use a rice krispie treat for the upright tail section. It worked really well.